Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

[Sam George <linux@spishack.com>]

On 2004 Apr 13 , at 09:32, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2004-04-13 08:37:51 -0600, Sam George wrote:
> > Another possibility you perchance did not consider is that your bridge
> > battery may be dead.  The bridge battery sustains main memory while 
> > you
> > switch out the main battery.
>
> Unlikely, as it did work when I removed the second battery and put it
> back.

It sounds as if there are more details to what you have tried thus far. 
 So I believe you are saying that you have two batteries, and that when 
you are using battery #2 (and it's charged?) put the machine to sleep, 
remove the battery, wait a few seconds to simulate changing batteries 
and then put battery #2 back in the machine successfully wakes from 
sleep?  But when you try the same scenario with battery #1 it fails?

> > ps. you meant 1984-01-01 not 1904-01-01 right?
>
> No, it was 1904.

What kind of problem can cause this?  I do not know of a setting which 
can represent 1904 in the hardware parameter ram on a G4 Ti book.  I 
failed to even be able to set the hardware clock on a G4 Ti book to the 
year 1904.  Let alone have that value be saved for the next boot.

cira